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Polish food in our photos - general
« Thread Started on Jan 29, 2008, 3:13am »

I decided to create a seperate thread for pictures of Polish food and eating habits. I thought I would put these pictures into Neverending Photo Story in another board but that would be a bit messy.
The first to inaugurate the thread is an exciting dish called Tartar beefsteak, or tartar in short. Tartars were ferroscious Mongol nomads who used to terrorise Eastern ans Central Europe in the late Middle Ages, just like the Vikings did earlier in Western Europe.
The legend says that Tartar warriors used to put a piece of meat under the saddle and after e few hours` horse ride they took it out and ate it raw.
The dish is made from minced beef, with finely chopped onion, pickled cucumber and egg yoke. Optional additions are sardines, green olives or pickled mushrooms. Add a lot of pepper, olive oil, soya sauce. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Serve with bread.

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Tartars were barbarian nomads. The propensity to eat raw meat is natural for nomadic tribes. They knew how to make a fire, of course, but very often they couldn`t find enough fuel in the steppe. Besides, during their rides and invasions, when agility and speed played a crucial role, they didn`t have time to cook their meat. So they had to eat it raw.

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Re: Polish food
« Reply #1 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:16am »

A basket with blessed food - Swieconka [/b]is the proper spelling of the word. It is several kinds of food which you put into the basket, take to the church for blessing and then eat them.

This is an incomplete święconka, without sausage, for example.
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #2 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:16am »

It is normal for Poles to replenish their food supplies before Easter.

Everybody gets what they like the best.

I bought 4 pounds of home-made sausage. It is made according to a traditional Polish countryside recipe: aromatic, soft, without nasty hard pieces, only pure meat, spices and delicate skin. It is more expensive than in the shop, but worth it. [image]

I couldn`t resist, didn`t wait for Easter, chopped off a large piece/stick and devoured it. The best is fried, of course. With onion.

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« Reply #3 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:18am »

Bigos is sometimes called hunter`s stew in English. It is made of cabbage (mixed fresh and sauerkraut ), aromatic mushrooms, pieces of sausage and pork, spices. It should boil for a few hours, then it can last up to a week and it is even better then. A traditional Polish dish, but hard to digest.

Bigos, lard, raw meat are fatty dishes. So, you must be careful with cholesterol. The best remedy is to eat foods which dissolve it in your arteries

a lot of fruit and vegetables
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Sea fish, especially salmon
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #4 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:19am »

From time to time I fancy eating zapiekanka - fried dish.

Fry chopped potatoes. Add chopped sausage and fry.
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Add eggs and fry a little.
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Add spices and eat from the frying pan with a wooden spoon.
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #5 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:20am »

This is the newest trend in fast food serving in Poland. Pajda! A chunk!

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Vegetarian pajda:
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #6 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:21am »

To cook home-made pancakes one should use freshly pressed farmer cheese or milk straight from the cow.

Instead, on most occasions, people use cheese and milk from the supermarket.

An experienced cook is able to make a plateful of pancakes in one hour.

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Re: Polish food
« Reply #7 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:21am »

A supermarket next to ours` sells pierogis. They do business with some local lady who produces home-made pierogis. They are so tasty we can eat them day by day. It saves a lot of time and effort.

With meat
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With farmer cheese
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With blueberries
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Juicy leftovers.
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Strawberry
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with cream
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With cottage cheese
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With meat again
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Two plates of pierogis
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And remember, some kinds of pierogis can`t be served with sour cream. E.g., these with meat inside

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Re: Polish food
« Reply #8 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:22am »

Mar 29, 2008, 6:22pm, ozzy wrote:

thinking about these delicacies makes my mouth water !
It looks incredibly good !

Hmm, gloat on this food and you will get flooding in your mouth. hahaha

Easter Sunday breakfast:

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After little decoration.
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Cheesecake is quite easy to make.
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #9 on Jan 29, 2008, 3:23am »

Yesterday I went to the biggest fresh food market in Krakow.

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I bought these cherries for my wine.
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American blueberries on the left, in the center Polish wild blueberries, On the right giant black currants. Above all are gooseberries.
American blueberries seem the most expensive of all but it can be misleading because they cost 22 zl per kilo while Polish mountain blueberries cost only 9 zl but per litre, not kilo. Practically, they are the same price.
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Re: Polish food
« Reply #10 on Feb 17, 2008, 3:56am »

We have recently started experimenting with growing our own sprouts.
It doesn`t mean we hadn`t eaten sprouts before. You can buy pre-packaged sprouts of different plants, about 10 kinds of them, in big stores. The most popular are mung beans, soyabeans, sunflower, radish, and the rest I don`t remember. The store sprouts are so biiig!! hahahahaha

After discovering a rack with various seeds for growing, we decided to buy a dozen or so packets. The experiment began. We have this special container with a plastic sieve to put seeds on so that they remain immersed in water. But it didn`t pass our requirements, a few portions of seeds got mouldy and had to be thrown away.

Finally we used another method advised in the packet instructions. Simple, primitive jars. They are the best.

The most successful harvest is with mung beans. They grow fast and big. Less abundant is radish and lentils. Sunflower seeds were a complete failure. They refused to sprout even by 1/10 inch.

Here, mung beans in 3 jars and a packet of store sunflower sprouts.
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